[metapost] problem with DVItoMP

[Liunian]

Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> writes:

> Liunian wrote:
>> hi,
>>    I am a new fish of metapost. When i use "label" command with "btex ... etx",
>>    such as:                glabel.bot(btex time etex ,OUT);
>>
>>    an error occurred with a message:
>>
>>          makempx: Command failed: dvitomp mpxerr.dvi start_w_l.mpx
>>
>>          >> start_w_l.mp
>>          >> start_w_l.mpx
>>          ! Unable to make mpx file.
>>          l.42     label.bot(btex
>>                            time  etex ,OUT);
>>
>>   I have check the file mpxerr.dvi, it can show the word "time" correctly.
>
> Please run the command
>
>   dvitomp mpxerr.dvi start_w_l.mpx
>
> by hand. That will bring up the actual error message from dvitomp,
> and hopefully will give a better clue of what is wrong.
>
> Best wishes,
> Taco
Thanks for your help.

I run the command by hand and the error message is:

DVItoMP abort: DVItoMP capacity exceeded (max font numbers=300)